A CONMAN who robbed children hoping to star in hit musical Les Miserables has been sentenced for another fraudulent scheme.

Gary Feeney, 44, was ordered to do 150 hours’ community service and pay back £7477.74 to victims of a series of cons involving the sale of audio equipment.

He pled guilty to the charges in January 2008 but had been on the run since then and was only sentenced at Arbroath Sheriff Court yesterday.

Feeney, who also goes by the name Gary Adams, was exposed by the Record last year after he pretended to be an artistic director and took £100 each from more than 30 kids who wanted a role in a Scottish tour of Les Miserables.

The court earlier heard Feeney had moved from Friockheim, Angus, to Newcastleton, Roxburghshire, where he lived under a different name.